Comment by digitaltrees

Exactly this. I recently tried Claude code again to get the subsidy on fable rather than paying api prices and was so frustrated by how much it pushed autonomous behavior. It would start ignoring my planning documents, ignoring my coding conventions, reimplementing features and code already in the project (not sure it ever makes sense to have two auth systems in parallel or two websocket implementations for the same ui) and then in the most shocking interaction just refused to stop working and listen to my instructions. I think maybe it was because there was a subagent doing the work but it was a complete waste of time and effort.

I was using cursor, in large part because I could at least stop it when I need to.

I ended up building my own IDE from scratch so I can be more in the loop while also having the full agent experience.